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Constructing a globalized over-the-counter financial market. Limits of performativity and problems of cognitive framing - The case of credit derivatives

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Rainelli, Hélène

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Huault, Isabelle

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2009-12-15T11:01:34Z

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2009-12-15T11:01:34Z

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2006

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https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/2708

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en

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sociologie des marchés financiers

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performativité

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dérivés de crédit

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risque

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332

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G14

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Constructing a globalized over-the-counter financial market. Limits of performativity and problems of cognitive framing - The case of credit derivatives

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Communication / Conférence

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Iae de Paris Gregor;France

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The aim of the paper is to understand how one particular financial innovation, namely
credit derivatives, has become a market and what kind of obstacles the promoters of the
product have to face to achieve success. Following MacKenzie and Millo (2003) we focus on
legitimacy issues taking into account moral, political, cultural and social dimensions as well
as the question of performativity of economic theory. More specifically, we propose to study
the emergence and the development of the market for credit derivatives, such as has been seen
in France since the end of 1997. This market presents two major characteristics, which make
it different from the options market studied by Baker (1984) and by Mac Kenzie and Millo
(2003). The market for credit derivatives is an over the counter market- a market of contracts
exchanged between parties without the intermediary of a central authority in charge of
organising the exchanges. In addition, this is a trans-national market, basically concerning
large financial institutions and, in particular, investment banks throughout the world. How
was this market born? How did it come about and how does it continue to function? What is
the role played by the financial theory of risk in this process? Those are the questions we
address in the paper.